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# QED Archive
## Introduction
This is an archive of the source code for various versions of
the QED editor. It is the result of some discussions on the
mailing list of [The Unix Historical Society](http://www.tuhs.org)
in October of 2018.
It started based on the fact that I have a tarball from 1987 of
QED source code which was lacking some documentation. I asked about
it on the mailing list.
Members of the list helped out, and also contributed other versions,
which I have included here. I thank everyone who contributed to the
discussion and who sent me source code tarballs and/or zip files.
## Contents
The directories are listed here in approximate chronological order
of the QED version for which they apply. Each directory has its
own `README.md` file.
* `sds-940`: QED for the SDS 930 and 940 systems in the late 1960s.
* `multics`: What seems to be the last version of QED for MULTICS.
* `usenix-80-caltech`: QED scripts from a 1980 USENIX software
distribution tape.
* `unix-1985`: My tarball from 1987. The files therein have dates
in April 1985.
* `unix-1992`: A tarball supplied to me by Rob Pike, one of the original
authors of QED for Unix when at the University of Toronto. The files
have dates in 1992.
* `visual-studio-1994`: A version of Unix QED ported to Visual Studio, circa
1994, supplied by Don Mitchell.
## Other Archives
There are other relevant GitHub archives of QED. Since they're already
on GitHub, I saw no reason to replicate them here.
* The code for [CTSS QED](https://github.com/rcornwell/ctss/tree/master/src/edit).
Pointer provided by Lars Brinkhoff.
* Leah Neukirchen's
[up-to-date port of QED](https://github.com/chneukirchen/qed-caltech).
* Sean Jensen's [new port of Rob Pike's 1992 Unix version, with UTF-8 support](https://github.com/phonologus/qed-new).
## Other Notes
I have attempted to use various Git incantations to make the files
appear to have the commit dates as recorded in the tarballs and zip
files I received, even though they actually predate Git's invention.
## Links of Possible Interest
Leah Neukirchen's blog ["Remembering The Work of David Tilbrook and the
QED Editor"](https://leahneukirchen.org/blog/archive/2021/01/remembering-the-work-of-david-m-tilbrook-and-the-qed-editor.html).
Sean Jensen's updated version of Rob Pike's [QED Tutorial](https://github.com/phonologus/qed-book).
#### Last Updated
Mon Feb 1 07:45:07 IST 2021